I'm a fan of gentoo's package manager specification (PMS) [1], however the only package manager that is fully compliant is portage, which I don't think is appropriate for sage. In particular:
1. It requires a noticeably bigger bootstrapping of the world. Lmonade reduces this to only ~20 more packages than we already have (if I recall), but imo this is still too many. 2. Portage itself has many dependencies, often with very explicit version requirements. This makes non-Linux platforms a pain, since you need things like gnu coreutils and findutils. 3. It does not support tree relocation. 4. (Lesser) The Portage source is atrocious, and it performs terribly. Imo, the most promising implementation of the PMS is paludis, however it is not fully compliant (in particular prefix support is incomplete, and binaries are assumed to be in the ELF format). [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:PMS -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
